New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the life of Ah Toy, a young woman who gained wealth and fame in gold rush San Francisco, and who was the first Asian woman to 'go to law' to use the American judicial system against injustice. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the month of publication at Coloma in January 1998, 150 years after the discovery of gold there. Historical afterword. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-312-865023.